Heartland Daily Podcast – Anthony Watts: Why Climate Data is Faulty

H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is managing editor of Environment & Climate News and a research fellow for environment and energy policy at The Heartland Institute. Burnett worked at the National Center for Policy Analysis for 18 years, most recently as a senior fellow in charge of NCPA’s environmental policy program. He has held various positions in professional and public policy organizations, including serving as a member of the Environment and Natural Resources Task Force in the Texas Comptroller’s e-Texas commission.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, H. Sterling Burnett, managing editor of Environment & Climate News speaks with Anthony Watts. Watts is a meteorologist extraordinaire, the founder of the Surface Station’s project and the most popular climate blog in existence, Watts Up With That. Watts joins Burnett to explain why temperature data is faulty.

Anthony discussed the ongoing problem with climate data, in particular, the fact that our temperature records are only as good as the data and the data is not very good due to poor quality monitoring stations and unpublicized changes in where temperatures are recorded, how temperatures are recorded and how the raw data is adjusted.